If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.